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Category: Materials Sciences

Pushing the Boundaries of Moore’s Law: How Can Extreme UV Light Produce Tiny Microchips?

Center of X-Ray Optics laboratory

New Silicon Nanowires Can Really Take the Heat

Transmission electron microscopy image showing a silicon-28 nanowire coated with silicon dioxide (SiO2).

Four Berkeley Lab Scientists Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Four headshots aligned in a row. From left, Gerbrand Ceder, Alessandra Lanzara, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and Pamela Ronald.

2 Berkeley Lab Physicists Elected into the National Academy of Sciences

Collage with Joel Moore, left, and Joseph W. Orenstein on the right.

Skyrmions on the Rise – New 2D Material Advances Low-Power Computing

A map produced by magnetic microscopy techniques shows vortex-like spin patterns called skyrmions appearing in a thin, layered 2D material.

Scientists Uncover Surprising New Clues to Exotic Superconductors’ Superpowers

Artist's impression of a magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor cooled with liquid nitrogen.

How X-Rays Can Make Better Batteries

Artist's rendering of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries with a midnight blue background and electric blue outlines surrounding 3 batteries

A Day in the Half-Life

Collage of a black and white finger holding a microchip on top of a colorful background of painterly strokes

With a Little Help, New Optical Material Assembles Itself

Technique Tunes Into Graphene Nanoribbons’ Electronic Potential

New Smart-Roof Coating Enables Year-Round Energy Savings

Gloved hand holding a petri dish of radiative coating

These Tiny Liquid Robots Never Run Out of Juice as Long as They Have Food

liquid robots